Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : rites and teachings for this life and beyond / / edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Sam van Schaik.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Kapstein, Matthew.; Van Schaik, Sam.
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2010
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 25.
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• टिप्पणियाँ: Description based upon print version of record.

Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers app...